পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫১৮

8৯২ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড Plus many non-party organizations and individuals like myself who feel that the time for recognition is here and now. Though this unfortunate division of the national mind has been allowed to occur, the difference of opinion is not so great, nor is the issue itself of such a nature, as to permit its partisan exploitation. While the Congress (R) might wish to mobilise public opinion in favour of its own stand, it must concede the right to others to do the same. The later, however, must present a united front if they mean to be taken seriously. Happily Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee. President of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, has agreed to convert his party's programme scheduled for the 12th August into an all-party or even a non-party affair. I appeal to all the parties and personalities concerned to take advantage of this constructive offer. At first pan-Arabism’s political goal was freedom within the Ottoman empire, and this seemed possible of attainment with the growing revolutionary movement within Turkey itself, the centre of the empire. Arab nationalists and Turkish reformers cooperated in the Committee of Union and Progress the secret association through which the Young Turks took power in 1908-9 on a liberal programme that promised equality to the various racial, religions, and national groups. But the chauvinism of the Young Turks disillusioned the Arabs, who then adopted autonomy as their political goal. Christian leadership in the nationalist's movement be gain to should with Muslims who were also feeling the influence of new ideologies. Moreover, the illiberal turn of the Young Turks alienated the Moslem Arabs as much as it did the Christians. The Ottomization policy mean the discouragement of Arabic language and literature and the imposition of Turkish in administration and education. These development set the stage for the failure, of the Ottoman effort to defend itself against the allied powers by cooling for a holy war 1914. Morrore Berger, The Arab World Today, Doubleday & Company New York 1962, p. 338